Huineng was more impressed: his father took him to buy New Year's goods.

At that time, in Huineng's eyes, the tall father was leading the way in front of him. Hui Neng, who had just arrived at his waist, was behind his father. They went to the integrated market with the largest variety of New Year's goods sold at that time, and the most complete and lively market. Since it was a walk, it felt very far away.

The integrated market is particularly large, and the scope is through several streets. There are hundreds of stalls standing and squatting, all of which are vendors from the countryside who sell New Year's goods, and they sell nothing more than all kinds of meat, poultry, eggs, as well as all kinds of cereals and local specialties.

In addition to the food and specialties that do not move, the chickens, ducks, geese tied to the fine hemp rope, and all kinds of fish jumping up and down in the big pot add to the festive atmosphere of the New Year.

There is often such a scene in the market: under the scorching red sun and brilliant sunshine, thousands of people come to buy New Year's goods, shuttling among thousands of countrymen selling New Year's goods, and there are all kinds of poultry on the ground like a leisurely stroll, jumping up and down, extremely fast, and the big carp with scales and armor is stirring up turbid waves in the big water basin. In addition to the 28th market day of the New Year before the Spring Festival, there is such a lively scene there?

At that time, Huineng's father took him to shuttle among these vendors, from street to street, and back again.

The family is not rich, and it is necessary to be cautious in spending money, and Huineng's father always has to find the cheapest and suitable New Year's goods in the balance of price and quality. Every time I see my father buying one, I open the sack or noodle bag that I carry with me and put it in.

Huineng remembers that the most common ones to buy are golden needles, shiitake mushrooms, vermicelli, yuba, etc., and other farmhouse vegetables such as yellow bud white, snow peas, green onions, garlic, etc., which are grown in their own vegetable fields, so they don't need to buy them.

However, Huineng's father said: "You can buy any New Year's goods in small or no way, but you must buy flour to make dumplings." ”

Huineng asked, "Ah Dad, is flour so important?" ”

"The custom of the Southern Chinese New Year is to use glutinous rice to scoop into flour, make a thin round oath with the size of a palm, and then put down the oil nest and fry it into a golden round oath (cake). And our northern hometown New Year customs, Chinese New Year's Eve must have dumplings to eat, to have a taste of the year. Lu Xingyu looked at the north and said with emotion.

"Oh." Xiaohui can look at her father and suddenly understand. It's no wonder that in the past few days, he has seen his father standing alone on the side of the gate, looking at the north...... It turned out that Ah Daddy had melted his deep love for his hometown in that hometown.

Then, Lu Xingyu gushed about the scene of the New Year in the north:

The taste of the New Year in the north comes early, and there is a habit of eating frozen dumplings for the New Year. Since the day of the New Year, every household has begun to make dumplings, no problem with how much to wrap, and there is a natural large refrigerator outside, which can be placed as much as you want.

Many people put it on the halberd stack to freeze after wrapping, and the naughty children climbed up the halberd stack left and right to compare whose dumplings are good-looking, not to mention the good-looking dumplings of the particular people, but also placed in a circle like a flower, which is very good-looking.

The dumplings covered by one curtain after one curtain were frozen in less than ten minutes. After the frozen dumplings are taken to the home warehouse and put in the jar, the general family has a small jar of frozen dumplings during the Spring Festival, when you are too lazy to cook, take a plate of frozen dumplings and cook it in the pot, which is delicious and trouble-free.

There are also frozen fruits, which are generally put in two or several jars at home by northerners, and frozen fruits are put in dumplings. Frozen fruits are mainly frozen pears, but there are also frozen apples and frozen begonia fruits. And then there's the ice bricks.

Speaking of ice bricks, Lu Xingyao felt that his stomach was aching. He said it was caused by stealing ice bricks when he was a child. Every year before the Chinese New Year, my mother will buy one or two boxes of ice bricks and put them in the mouth jar, and tell them not to eat them first, it is for the New Year. However, he couldn't help it, he ate one a day, and by the time his mother went to get the ice bricks for the New Year, there was not much left. However, he left the root of a cold stomach.

People born in the north can see flowers in spring, summer and autumn, and the winter in the north is too long, so they think of a way to be romantic, use red candles to melt them, pinch out the flowers while they are hot, and then stick them to the branches, so that the flowers are more durable. There are also blistered flowers, and in winter, some people start to stand on the street and shout and sell blistered flowers. I bought two folded paper flowers and went home, put them in a bottle of water, just a piece of paper, and when I saw the water, it bloomed.

It is not only these flowers that decorate the house, but also many women and women who make female red, and every household has a curtain when they enter the door, as well as a quilt curtain, a tablecloth on the table, and a sofa backrest, and there are all kinds of embroidery and crochet ornaments in almost all the places that can be covered.

Northerners are very particular about the covered cloth, and they are also very good at it, and they have to use good-looking cloth curtains to cover the poor and ugly, which is also one of the characteristics of northerners who love face.

New clothes for the New Year are prepared before the year, and new clothes for children are a must. Wrap the new clothes and put them on the quilt on the top of the kang, which is both eye-catching and soul-hooking. People who are looking forward to wearing new clothes as soon as possible are looking forward to the arrival of the New Year soon.

Northerners also love to paste couplets, the main door, the second door, all the doors must be pasted couplets, and some people even have to paste couplets in the bedroom. So, there are a lot of northern couplets.

When our family celebrates the New Year, we often write couplets by ourselves, and my mother first uses white flour and paste, and then, my father tears open the red paper to write couplets, and writes a pair of fathers and quickly takes them to paste. The speed of pasting the couplet should be fast, otherwise the paste will freeze, and after pasting, you must warm the couplet by hand, or it will fall off after sticking.

On the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the children in the north put on new clothes early in the morning.

My mother always said, "Let's put on new clothes in the afternoon, otherwise it will get dirty before the New Year." ”

The snow in the northern land is almost always new, and there are happy children in new clothes on the snow, the sound of squeaking and running, the laughter of children, and the sound of firecrackers or two.

On the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve, every family is very particular about this Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, chicken and fish are a must, and our family's Chinese New Year's Eve dinner also has a wild animal's hand meat. Generally, on the evening of thirty nights, the children patiently abide by the rules of the family after eating the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, and after eating, they run out happily, and run outside all night, not feeling cold at all. Therefore, the thirty nights of the year of the northerners are the least cold nights in the northern winter.

On the morning of the first day of the new year, families generally eat frozen dumplings, and the meal must be eaten early, otherwise they will be blocked in the quilt by the New Year's greetings, which is very embarrassing.

The fifth day of the Lunar New Year is also a big day of the Spring Festival, and the fifth day of the Lunar New Year also has to eat dumplings and set off firecrackers. On the seventh day of the new year, you have to eat noodles. On the tenth day of the first year, some people eat dumplings, and some people pay attention to eating cakes. On the fifteenth day, every family was treated the same as the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve, lighting lanterns and setting off cannons. Only the diet is somewhat different from Chinese New Year's Eve, eating bean buns, especially sticky bean buns, or eating Lantern Festival.

The night of the fifteenth day of the northern year is very lively, the ice sculptures and ice lanterns are generally lit on the fifteenth, plus a round of bright moon in the sky, reflecting the snowy earth, the night of the fifteenth day in the north, such as the city that never sleeps, is bright and bright.

The year in the north is indeed long, almost this first month, it is the feeling of the year, and some customs Lu Xingyu also can't remember a little, I remember that the seventeenth and twenty-seventh of the first month are all to eat noodles. It was only on the day of February when the second dragon raised its head, and the adults were busy reminding the children that the New Year was over.

Lu Xingyan's childhood in the north was the strongest in the year, and it was also the most memorable time in his life.

During the Chinese New Year, it is indispensable to buy a hanging of pork, carrying pork, carrying sacks and noodle bags, and carrying golden needles, mushrooms, vermicelli, yuba and flour in their hands.

After buying New Year's goods, the other work of preparing New Year's dishes in advance will be handed over to the skillful mother.

Huineng listened to his father say to him: "Twenty-four, sweeping the house, is the saying of the folk song of Yadad's hometown." ”

Huineng thought: The twenty-fourth day of the lunar month is the day of removing the old year, welcoming the new year, and removing the old cloth and the new. This is where the so-called cleaning began.

According to the old tradition, on other days of the year, the house is simply scanned, the furniture is only partially arranged, and the clothes are only washed with the wear. This is the only day of the year, and it is a "traditional, statutory" day of comprehensive cleaning.

Huineng remembered the days when she lived in the half-old house at home with her father and mother.

That's really called an old house. Huineng was born in that house. On the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month, I saw my mother tie a broom to a long bamboo pole with a rope, and it was enough to sweep the roof.

The old roof was mottled like an old mural, and in less than half a year, it was covered with dust and cobwebs. I can't reach it, and I have to stand on a chair.

On this day, all the furniture and the bed are to be moved so that all the dirt and dirt that has been hidden under it all year round will be cleaned. All the furniture should be wiped clean inside and out, not only clothes, bed sheets should be washed, re-assembled and laid out.

Wait until everything is cleaned, although the old house will never be renewed. But it's definitely a new look for the old and a new atmosphere for the new year. Because when the Spring Festival is approaching, my mother and mother use some lime fragments, melt them with water, stir them into a slurry, and dip them into a millet broom and smear them on the blackened soil walls of the house, so as to decorate the old house a little whiter.

The same old house, the same lazy air that permeates the room, but in the past the air was stale, damp and cold. The air in the old house is full of freshness, humidity and warmth. Although the year is still old, the home is already new.